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Faculty of Law to cut jobs due to austerity measures

Bart Lichtenveldt,
8 december 2016 - 11:22

The Faculty of Law has been told it must slash its budget by 4.5 million euros over the coming years. André Nollkaemper, faculty dean, has proposed a set of austerity measures which, if accepted by the Works Council, would mean a number of employees could lose their jobs.

In his proposal, Nollkaemper states that a saving as large as 1.8 million euros could be made by re-allocating staff, making better use of available space and re-evaluating the number of congresses attended. He states further that he believes a total saving of 4.3 million euros would be sufficient since he predicts the faculty will start making a profit in 2019.

 

This, however, is the easy part. A total of 2.5 million euros in savings is still outstanding and the cuts required to make them are likely to be more painful.

‘Unfortunately I cannot guarantee there won’t be any forced redundancies’

Eggens

One of the targets of the foreseen cutbacks is the Eggens Institute. This ‘extra’ establishment’s main focus is to provide refresher courses that Nollkaemper believes are no longer necessary. ‘Refresher courses are offered at law offices. We aim to reduce the Eggens Institute in size and to instead provide immersion courses.’

 

The Leibniz Institute of Law Informatics and the Bonger Institute of Criminology are also to be re-evaluated in the shake up. Measures aimed at these so called ‘faculty outskirts’ are thought to add up to an estimated saving of 600.000.

 

Another 600.000 is expected to be found in costs incurred by support and management staff. There is a high volume of double work being performed in the faculty’s administrative offices with students regularly complaining about the inconstancies in the information received by the different administrative bureaus.

 

Having one central Education Information Centre would change this. ‘Unfortunately I cannot guarantee there won’t be any forced redundancies,’ Nollkaemper says about the matter.

 

The remaining 1.4 million euros will be found using money in the faculty’s reserves.

 

In February the Works Council will take a decision on the matter.